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00:00:00.000 On today's podcast, my executive producer, Mr. Stewart Year, joins me to talk about several

00:00:05.740 things. One, we do get into the Olympics, and I try to be very clarifying on this. I think it is

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00:02:14.280 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. So Stu, um, I found something on

00:02:21.880 themendproject.com. This is a place that, that helps people get away from mental abuse, uh, and

00:02:31.100 physical abuse. And, um, now I'm only reading it just because, you know, I'm not, I'm not tying

00:02:37.600 this to anything. Somebody said to me, I read it, you know, here at home. My wife was like, I think I

00:02:42.600 see what you're saying. And I'm like, I'm not saying anything. I'm talking about mental abuse. I'm

00:02:46.880 talking about people, unlike the people broadly in the United States of America being mentally

00:02:54.840 abused. I'm just talking about people who are in a situation and need to get out. Okay. Make no

00:03:01.540 mistake. This is from, uh, a, an abusive, uh, get away from abuse website. Make no mistake. Lying is a

00:03:08.600 type of abuse. We all lie sometimes, don't we? So when is it abusive? Lying is one of the most common

00:03:14.620 tactics an abuser uses to gain power and control over their victim. Lying confuses the victim's

00:03:21.340 reality while helping the liar to shrink from their responsibility in the situation, often shifting

00:03:27.520 the blame to the victim. Bosses, significant others, friends, family may use lying as a form of covert

00:03:35.100 emotional abuse. Lying also paves the way for other types of abuse, such as physical abuse.

00:03:40.580 Well, everybody makes mistakes or even little lies and they can, but they can quickly culminate into

00:03:46.260 full-on manipulation of a person or a situation. A central element to covert abuse is stressful

00:03:52.620 confusion. You have an example maybe that of that Stu stress, stressful confusion. This is the emotion

00:04:00.080 abusers want their victims to feel when lying to them. The covertly abusive tactic of lying increases

00:04:07.220 the victim's anxiety levels and cause their thinking to become clouded. A confused victim

00:04:12.920 is less likely to respond quickly, to go with their gut, or confront the liar. Okay, now that's the

00:04:20.360 open now. Let me give you a few and just see if you can find any example. I know you're not abused,

00:04:25.020 Stu, but maybe you know somebody that is being abused. Black lies. One, black lies are bold-faced lies

00:04:33.500 the abuser uses to gain something for themselves at the cost of the one being deceived. Think for an

00:04:40.100 example of a realtor who lies about the condition of underground plumbing into a home to get a higher

00:04:45.960 price for its sale and thereby gains a better commission. In other words, the realtor exploits

00:04:51.880 the buyer's lack of current knowledge out of self-interest. Similarly, a common lie used by abusers is,

00:04:58.280 I deposited the check. However, if that check was deposited into the abuser's personal account

00:05:04.380 instead of the joint account, the abuser has gained financial power over the victim. If the

00:05:09.900 check was never deposited, the perpetrator then gains power of confusion and anxiety when the victim

00:05:16.000 wonders where the money went or if the money ever existed to begin with. Upon further inspection,

00:05:22.000 some of these deceptions can be identified. However, at their core, these lies are statements

00:05:27.640 used by abusers to gain something over the victim, power, money, status, or control.

00:05:36.120 I'm sorry, you probably don't relate to any of this, Stu, because I'm just talking to people who

00:05:40.220 are being abused. White lies. Everybody knows this type of deception, which is unfortunately common.

00:05:47.120 White lies are small, seeming dismissive obstructions of reality that are harder to disprove.

00:05:53.260 They are sometimes used for good reasons, such as telling a friend you like her new haircut when

00:05:57.380 you don't, so you won't hurt her feelings. Because white lies are less traceable, however,

00:06:02.660 they carry greater power to manipulate others. Their most insidious use is when the abuser tells

00:06:08.600 white lies about the victim to others, because those lies slowly influence others to view the victim

00:06:15.460 in a different light. Can you think of an example? For an example, during particularly stressful

00:06:22.780 times, an abuser may tell friends and family that everything is good, we're just fine. However,

00:06:28.540 the victim's behavior makes him or her appear erratic, unpredictable, and at times unstable to

00:06:33.840 those close to the couple. Over time, this tactic effectively isolates the victim from others.

00:06:40.240 Each individual lie might be too small to notice or address at first, but over time,

00:06:44.600 and with repetition, they will successfully shift others' perception of the individual.

00:06:51.920 Three, half-truths. Half-truths are versions of what happened that helped the abuser to avoid

00:06:57.960 responsibility in a situation. The liar relies on the fact that they are telling just enough of the

00:07:04.660 truth to seem credible. For example, recounting a disagreement by saying, he yelled at me while

00:07:10.600 leaving out the events which led up to the yelling. This omission of important facts paints a picture

00:07:16.200 that is more favorable for the abuser. Four, broken promises. This form of lying is difficult for abusers

00:07:24.140 to accept when confronted. They will attempt to give themselves the benefit of the doubt. An abuser who

00:07:29.440 promises to come by your work party, then breaks that promise by refusing to show up at the last minute,

00:07:34.520 is a liar. They will try to excuse their actions by claiming that they had a hard day or didn't think

00:07:39.580 he really wanted them to come. Like the white lie, broken promises can make the victim look bad in front

00:07:44.860 of others. Remember, a broken promise is the same as a lie. Forgetting. Similar to broken promises, claiming

00:07:51.880 to forget a commitment or an obligation such as, oh, I forgot you wanted me to be home early tonight, is

00:07:57.520 manipulation. It can convince the victim that the abuser made a simple mistake. Constant forgetfulness

00:08:05.260 should not be dismissed. And then finally, denial. Liars are so comfortable with telling lies that they

00:08:13.820 will do anything to avoid getting caught or taking responsibility, even if that means flat out denying

00:08:20.800 the truth, no matter how obvious it may be. If someone denies the reality of facts and evidence

00:08:27.400 when presented, they are likely a liar. Remember, emotionally healthy people do not habitually lie,

00:08:35.280 especially concerning relationships with loved ones. Transparency should be sought after,

00:08:41.920 because that's what connects people. A genuinely loving partner, parent, sibling, friend, etc.,

00:08:47.420 will not continually lie. And that is what divides people and prevents authentic relationships. Any

00:08:54.660 combination and frequency of these types of lies should be noted and addressed. If this blog helps

00:09:01.760 you see the lies you're facing from a partner or another, maybe a president or any... I did what? I just

00:09:07.640 lost my place here. Anyway, I just thought that was interesting about how lies are mental abuse.

00:09:17.420 And, gosh, I don't know if you saw any use in any of that in your own life, but if you were

00:09:27.500 constantly being lied to, you should make a concerted effort to avoid that liar, because they are

00:09:37.000 manipulating you. My gosh, I just thought of this. This could be applied to the media and to the left.

00:09:45.920 I... Holy cow, because black lives, white lives, half-truths, broken promises, and I forget that. Did I say that? I don't even know how I said that. Huh. Interesting.

00:10:00.900 Hard to know if that was an abuse site that you were reading from or an internal democratic campaign strategy memo.

00:10:07.560 It really does describe how... Or the press.

00:10:11.380 Yeah, the press, for sure. Yeah. The press.

00:10:14.280 That's the thing. I mean, the one thing about...

00:10:16.640 Politicians lie. Yeah.

00:10:19.560 Politicians have always lied, told half-truths,

00:10:23.620 et cetera, et cetera. The difference

00:10:25.560 here now is

00:10:27.200 it's not just a

00:10:29.500 politician. It's

00:10:31.480 the entire system

00:10:34.220 around that politician.

00:10:37.220 It's the entire party

00:10:39.320 around that. And then

00:10:40.620 it's the one that is supposed to be your

00:10:43.440 friend.

00:10:44.580 If you had a friend and you found out they were in

00:10:47.260 cahoots with the abuser,

00:10:49.660 somebody was lying to you,

00:10:51.540 and they were telling you,

00:10:52.980 it is you. It really is you.

00:10:55.200 No.

00:10:56.200 Anybody who tells you

00:10:57.640 that he's not a good guy,

00:11:00.020 I'm telling you right now,

00:11:01.760 they're part of the problem.

00:11:03.880 You know?

00:11:04.420 They're probably abusive.

00:11:06.400 You need to stay away from them

00:11:07.800 because they'll abuse you.

00:11:10.140 Yeah.

00:11:10.380 That's the real problem.

00:11:11.900 Politicians lie all the time.

00:11:13.700 We know that.

00:11:14.340 And I don't know.

00:11:15.720 There's something about this era

00:11:17.300 that makes it

00:11:18.300 more difficult

00:11:19.540 and the lies

00:11:21.460 more toward the black lies

00:11:23.160 than the white lies.

00:11:24.660 You know, there is the...

00:11:25.560 I was just listening to somebody,

00:11:26.700 some analysts talking about this,

00:11:28.300 and they were talking about...

00:11:29.060 It was in the realm of conspiracy theories.

00:11:31.340 And they were saying that

00:11:31.940 a lot of people online

00:11:33.560 that spread conspiracy theories

00:11:35.040 are more capable of doing it

00:11:39.840 because there's so much out there.

00:11:42.440 Like, they will...

00:11:43.580 They'll make some crazy claim,

00:11:45.380 this is going to happen at noon,

00:11:46.640 you know?

00:11:47.040 You know?

00:11:48.720 And it doesn't happen.

00:11:50.800 But there's so much other stuff going on,

00:11:52.660 so many other claims

00:11:53.660 that person will wind up reading that day,

00:11:56.240 so many other news stories

00:11:57.600 that in three days,

00:11:58.420 they don't necessarily remember

00:11:59.620 the guy who said

00:12:00.820 something was going to happen at noon

00:12:02.340 and it didn't happen.

00:12:03.660 And so, we get, like, immune almost

00:12:05.820 to people making claims

00:12:07.200 and being wrong.

00:12:08.280 We don't discount them anymore.

00:12:10.400 We don't have that same process.

00:12:12.400 You know, I constantly go back,

00:12:14.220 and it's just, like, antiquated history,

00:12:15.960 but thinking that, you know,

00:12:17.340 John Kerry arguably lost the election

00:12:20.460 for the claim of,

00:12:21.940 I actually did support

00:12:23.220 the 87 billion dollars

00:12:24.820 before I voted against it,

00:12:26.280 or whatever that quote was

00:12:27.360 that was a big part of that

00:12:28.900 because he,

00:12:29.600 it seemed like he was,

00:12:31.080 he just was lying.

00:12:33.100 He had this stance

00:12:34.240 and he just wanted to reverse it

00:12:35.560 to win this election,

00:12:36.300 and the American people

00:12:37.360 kind of rose up

00:12:38.040 and were like,

00:12:38.380 that's crazy.

00:12:39.080 We can't vote for a guy

00:12:39.860 who does that.

00:12:41.000 Like, now that's so quaint.

00:12:44.160 Like, saying that you

00:12:45.580 voted for a policy...

00:12:47.880 It is like a covered wagon.

00:12:49.100 Yeah, it feels like

00:12:50.300 you're on the Oregon Trail.

00:12:52.140 Like, you know,

00:12:53.020 it really...

00:12:53.740 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:12:54.120 It is, it's insane,

00:12:55.340 and I think, like,

00:12:56.440 part of that is, like,

00:12:57.520 is what's happening here.

00:12:59.780 They, the media with,

00:13:01.420 I think in the Trump era

00:13:02.460 in particular,

00:13:03.140 has taken the mask off

00:13:05.780 and said,

00:13:06.240 we no longer can be

00:13:07.800 this subtle force

00:13:09.740 leaning on the scale

00:13:12.080 a little bit

00:13:12.840 to push voters

00:13:14.260 toward the thing we want.

00:13:16.160 It's, this is too important.

00:13:17.740 Donald Trump's too evil.

00:13:19.640 Conservatives are too bad.

00:13:21.520 We now have to

00:13:22.560 straight out

00:13:23.660 be activists.

00:13:25.520 We have to be

00:13:26.600 left-wing

00:13:28.140 partisan operatives

00:13:31.060 all the time,

00:13:32.240 and it doesn't matter

00:13:34.880 if we just said

00:13:36.420 Kamala Harris

00:13:37.220 was actually abusive

00:13:38.560 to her staff

00:13:39.300 and couldn't get anything done

00:13:40.460 and failed on the border

00:13:41.500 as the borders are.

00:13:43.520 We now have to just say

00:13:45.260 she was never the borders are,

00:13:46.760 and she's wonderful

00:13:48.120 and everyone around her

00:13:49.000 loves her,

00:13:49.780 and this is Kamala,

00:13:51.360 and we just have to

00:13:52.160 reverse ourselves,

00:13:53.160 and that's it.

00:13:54.380 And we just push through it.

00:13:56.860 And that is a,

00:13:57.880 it is a,

00:13:58.860 it's not that much

00:13:59.640 different in goal,

00:14:00.940 but it is totally

00:14:02.020 different in approach,

00:14:03.180 and it's so in our faces,

00:14:04.980 and yet, you know,

00:14:06.640 a good chunk

00:14:07.820 of the American people

00:14:08.640 don't see it

00:14:09.220 because they don't

00:14:09.720 want to see it.

00:14:11.140 They want to believe

00:14:12.220 their side is right,

00:14:13.480 they want to believe

00:14:14.360 their side is just,

00:14:15.900 that they're fighting

00:14:16.400 this moral crusade,

00:14:18.180 and so they just

00:14:19.300 go along with it,

00:14:20.900 and I don't know,

00:14:21.760 is it going to work?

00:14:22.580 It didn't work in 2016.

00:14:24.860 Joe Biden's currently

00:14:26.160 somehow president

00:14:26.960 of the United States,

00:14:27.520 so I guess maybe

00:14:28.240 it did work in 2020.

00:14:30.400 Does it work again

00:14:31.320 in 2024?

00:14:32.760 The media did seem

00:14:33.860 to control this election

00:14:35.000 in a way I didn't

00:14:35.680 think it was possible.

00:14:36.500 They got the,

00:14:36.900 they got the candidate

00:14:37.880 thrown out.

00:14:38.780 The guy who won the primary

00:14:40.060 is no longer the candidate

00:14:41.360 because largely the media

00:14:43.120 decided to become

00:14:44.080 journalists for two weeks.

00:14:47.320 It was a coup.

00:14:49.040 It was a coup.

00:14:49.800 It was an orchestrated coup.

00:14:51.220 Yeah.

00:14:52.480 And if they can do

00:14:55.120 whatever they want

00:14:56.220 with the laws

00:14:56.920 and the media

00:14:57.540 and everything else,

00:14:58.980 we know that there's

00:15:02.020 all kinds of

00:15:03.000 plotting and planning.

00:15:04.620 Otherwise,

00:15:05.180 the White House

00:15:05.760 would have said

00:15:06.740 what they were doing

00:15:08.400 to get all new

00:15:09.240 registered voters,

00:15:10.760 which was the first,

00:15:12.100 well,

00:15:12.200 I think the first

00:15:13.240 executive order

00:15:14.220 that he signed

00:15:15.120 was an all hands

00:15:16.880 on deck register voters

00:15:18.080 for the next four years,

00:15:19.680 all government wide,

00:15:21.900 and they won't disclose

00:15:23.120 what that means

00:15:24.020 or what they've been doing,

00:15:25.520 which is an abuse,

00:15:26.940 again,

00:15:27.200 of our money

00:15:27.920 and of our trust,

00:15:29.800 but they won't

00:15:30.740 abuse that.

00:15:31.680 If they can

00:15:32.660 fix the election,

00:15:34.320 they will fix

00:15:35.060 the election,

00:15:36.280 and they will feel

00:15:37.680 justified

00:15:38.220 because the threat

00:15:39.780 is too big.

00:15:40.520 The ends

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00:15:42.520 the means.

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00:16:57.860 You're listening to

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00:17:04.980 Okay, if you've been

00:17:06.020 watching the news

00:17:06.960 as Stu and I have been

00:17:08.680 and as we discussed

00:17:09.520 last hour,

00:17:10.280 the transformation

00:17:12.360 of the media

00:17:13.740 is absolutely

00:17:15.700 astounding.

00:17:17.340 How they have gone

00:17:18.280 from we don't like

00:17:19.700 Kamala

00:17:20.180 to she's the greatest

00:17:22.240 is amazing.

00:17:24.720 There's a video editor,

00:17:26.440 Maze Moore,

00:17:27.380 and he made a montage

00:17:28.840 of the media

00:17:30.900 hating on Kamala Harris.

00:17:32.820 Listen,

00:17:33.160 cut 10, please.

00:17:34.560 There are reports

00:17:35.340 that say that you have

00:17:35.980 the lowest approval rating

00:17:37.280 of any vice president.

00:17:38.420 Well, there are polls

00:17:39.320 that also say I have

00:17:40.240 great approval ratings.

00:17:42.460 Swing voters don't like

00:17:43.740 Harris.

00:17:44.540 How big a drag

00:17:45.440 is Kamala Harris

00:17:46.460 on the ticket?

00:17:47.400 She's a pretty big drag.

00:17:48.320 I think she was arguably

00:17:49.340 Biden's worst

00:17:50.420 political decision.

00:17:51.500 They don't like her.

00:17:52.140 There's lots of reasons

00:17:52.800 they don't like her.

00:17:53.560 Kamala Harris' approval rating

00:17:55.180 is now at 28%,

00:17:55.880 which is an historic low

00:17:58.580 for any modern vice president.

00:18:00.260 We're hearing it

00:18:00.760 from mainstream media.

00:18:02.560 One outlet after another.

00:18:04.800 One leak after another.

00:18:07.260 That Kamala Harris

00:18:08.220 is the worst vice president ever,

00:18:10.080 the worst politician ever.

00:18:12.040 We don't see

00:18:12.560 the vice president.

00:18:14.240 What people are saying to me,

00:18:15.560 and I'm sure they're saying it to you,

00:18:16.540 where is the vice president?

00:18:17.900 Some might ask officials

00:18:18.720 a feeling that she came off

00:18:20.340 looking unprepared

00:18:21.220 for inevitable questions

00:18:22.820 about when she might visit

00:18:24.340 the southern border.

00:18:25.260 We've been to the border.

00:18:26.340 You haven't been to the border.

00:18:27.160 And I haven't been to Europe.

00:18:30.540 And I don't understand

00:18:32.720 the point that you're making.

00:18:33.960 The point that Lester Holt

00:18:35.300 was making was obvious

00:18:36.820 to anyone else

00:18:37.840 who was watching this interview,

00:18:39.160 which is that the issues

00:18:41.020 at the border

00:18:41.740 are inextricably linked

00:18:43.440 with the portfolio

00:18:44.340 that she's been given.

00:18:45.560 The border is secure.

00:18:46.660 We have a secure border.

00:18:50.600 Bidonomics is working.

00:18:54.680 Prices have gone up.

00:18:57.160 And families and individuals

00:19:01.020 are dealing with the realities

00:19:03.820 of that bread costs more,

00:19:07.500 that gas costs more.

00:19:09.300 And we have to understand

00:19:10.600 what that means.

00:19:12.100 That's about the cost

00:19:13.220 of living going up.

00:19:14.860 He picked Kamala Harris

00:19:16.420 to be his running mate.

00:19:18.440 She was ranked,

00:19:19.640 and is ranked as the most liberal senator

00:19:21.800 in the United States Senate.

00:19:22.820 So he could have gone the other way,

00:19:24.260 but he went to the left.

00:19:26.140 Joe Biden is running for re-election,

00:19:28.080 and I will be his ticket mate.

00:19:30.080 We'll stop.

00:19:30.640 We'll stop.

00:19:31.920 Sit.

00:19:32.220 Okay, they didn't like her for years.

00:19:37.040 Listen to this from the New York Times.

00:19:40.680 A comedy critic weighs in

00:19:42.700 on Kamala Harris's laugh.

00:19:47.000 Kamala Harris has an easy laugh.

00:19:49.960 To the campaign running against her,

00:19:51.620 this appears to be a vulnerability

00:19:52.980 to exploit Donald J. Trump

00:19:55.460 jumped on it

00:19:56.220 when unveiling a nickname

00:19:57.400 for her recently,

00:19:58.740 Laughin' Kamala Harris,

00:20:00.640 adding,

00:20:01.480 You can tell a lot about a laugh.

00:20:04.180 Complications of her guffawing

00:20:05.700 circulated online this week.

00:20:07.920 Opposition research

00:20:08.960 from the National Republican

00:20:10.200 Senatorial Committee

00:20:11.260 included her inappropriate laughter

00:20:13.280 under the subject heading,

00:20:15.260 Weird.

00:20:16.460 Well, the first thing to say

00:20:17.820 about this is simply,

00:20:19.620 LOL.

00:20:20.420 LOL.

00:20:22.580 Far from a liability,

00:20:24.600 her laugh is one of the most

00:20:25.860 effective weapons.

00:20:27.780 Only in an era

00:20:28.720 where everything gets politicized

00:20:30.600 would a campaign come out aggressively

00:20:32.340 against a boisterous laugh.

00:20:34.780 What's next?

00:20:35.580 Running against puppies

00:20:36.660 and ice cream?

00:20:38.680 Laughter transcends party politics,

00:20:41.580 and it's helped the messaging

00:20:42.580 from everyone from Ronald Reagan

00:20:44.140 to John F. Kennedy.

00:20:45.700 And yet,

00:20:46.700 in his bluntly insinuating style,

00:20:48.800 Trump is tapping into something.

00:20:50.420 That the traditional image

00:20:52.040 of leadership

00:20:52.640 is more of a stoic face

00:20:54.300 than a happy convulsion.

00:20:56.560 Now,

00:20:57.120 could you just play

00:20:57.940 some of the things,

00:20:58.920 Sarah,

00:20:59.440 that we have

00:20:59.960 where she's laughing

00:21:01.100 and just tell me

00:21:02.420 if this is an asset

00:21:03.380 or a liability?

00:21:06.020 I mean,

00:21:06.200 just the school bus thing

00:21:08.480 and anything

00:21:09.280 where she's just in love with it.

00:21:11.360 I love,

00:21:12.560 I love school buses.

00:21:13.940 She does love the school buses.

00:21:16.060 Huge fan of school buses.

00:21:18.140 School buses,

00:21:19.360 Venn diagrams,

00:21:21.360 what was it?

00:21:24.000 I can never think of the wording of it,

00:21:25.580 but it's unburdened by what has been.

00:21:29.720 Unburdening.

00:21:30.520 Whatever that is,

00:21:31.380 whatever she's been unburdened of.

00:21:32.740 You know what also excites me,

00:21:34.420 among the many things?

00:21:36.340 I'm excited about electric school buses.

00:21:38.860 I love electric school buses.

00:21:43.160 I just love them

00:21:44.980 for so many reasons.

00:21:47.300 Maybe because I went to school

00:21:48.740 on a school bus.

00:21:50.480 Raise your hand

00:21:51.300 if you went to school

00:21:52.240 on a school bus.

00:21:54.080 Right?

00:21:57.160 Oh my God.

00:21:57.960 Through the lens of something I love,

00:21:59.340 which is to always think about

00:22:00.960 complex issues

00:22:02.320 through the frame of a Venn diagram.

00:22:05.220 I love Venn diagrams.

00:22:06.120 I love Venn diagrams.

00:22:10.760 See what I'm saying?

00:22:11.980 It's nerdy.

00:22:13.020 I'm just saying.

00:22:16.020 It is the Caribbean nations.

00:22:19.020 Island nations.

00:22:20.720 In the Western Hemisphere.

00:22:22.940 That is where the Caribbean is.

00:22:24.480 We are also in the Western Hemisphere.

00:22:26.200 They are our neighbors.

00:22:27.320 What?

00:22:27.500 So, Ukraine is a country in Europe.

00:22:32.800 It exists next to another country

00:22:35.500 called Russia.

00:22:36.440 Russia is a bigger country.

00:22:38.220 Russia is a powerful country.

00:22:39.820 Russia decided to invade

00:22:41.340 a smaller country called Ukraine.

00:22:43.580 So, basically, that's wrong.

00:22:46.700 But inspired by also

00:22:48.180 our collective ability

00:22:49.440 to see what can be unburdened

00:22:51.800 by what has been.

00:22:54.760 Okay.

00:22:55.440 There's a lot here.

00:22:59.840 Only in an era

00:23:00.640 where everything gets politicized

00:23:02.600 would a campaign come out

00:23:03.780 aggressively against laughter.

00:23:06.780 We've been here before.

00:23:07.780 The last time a woman

00:23:08.600 led a presidential ticket,

00:23:09.880 Hillary Clinton's laugh

00:23:10.880 was criticized

00:23:11.540 and also called weird.

00:23:13.440 There was a suggestion

00:23:14.340 that it made her seem inauthentic.

00:23:16.740 Made her seem inauthentic?

00:23:20.340 She is inauthentic.

00:23:22.060 Which is a bizarre point

00:23:24.560 since genuine laughter is,

00:23:26.460 if not involuntary,

00:23:28.160 then very hard to fake.

00:23:29.940 Lenny Bruce once dared a crowd

00:23:31.500 to try it four times in an hour.

00:23:34.060 Calling women overly emotional

00:23:35.640 or hysterical is a sexist trope.

00:23:38.260 Have you heard anybody call her

00:23:39.760 overly emotional or hysterical

00:23:42.980 because of her laughs, Stu?

00:23:44.340 I have not heard that, no.

00:23:46.800 Insane.

00:23:47.620 I've heard a little of that,

00:23:48.720 but that's about it.

00:23:50.440 A long history of positioning laughter

00:23:52.900 in opposition to reason.

00:23:55.140 Plato warned against the love of laughter,

00:23:57.000 suggesting it indicates a loss of control.

00:24:00.040 Ever alert to the theater of power,

00:24:02.020 Trump rarely laughs.

00:24:04.000 Watching interviews with both candidates,

00:24:05.940 it's clear there's a sizable disparity

00:24:08.020 in laughter.

00:24:09.720 Trump scoffs and occasionally smirks,

00:24:11.660 which can be a crowd pleaser.

00:24:14.120 But chuckling just isn't his thing.

00:24:16.740 On talk shows,

00:24:17.560 Harris does it to deflect and connect,

00:24:20.140 to establish intimacy,

00:24:21.820 but also to underline

00:24:23.080 the absurdity of something.

00:24:25.320 Like school buses.

00:24:27.140 At its most effusive,

00:24:28.520 her laugh can draw attention to itself.

00:24:31.080 And taken out of context,

00:24:32.400 it can see as if she's the only one

00:24:34.520 in on the joke.

00:24:36.140 Harris has said she got her guffaw

00:24:37.900 from her mother.

00:24:39.000 But that's not only her laugh.

00:24:40.680 In her debut campaign speech,

00:24:43.240 she even got a big response

00:24:45.060 for muffling a snicker

00:24:46.320 after saying that her past,

00:24:48.640 her mother would say,

00:24:50.600 or no, in her past,

00:24:51.980 that she had taken on

00:24:53.060 perpetrators of all kinds.

00:24:55.260 This hint of a laugh

00:24:56.320 set up her most successful

00:24:57.820 stump line so far.

00:24:59.220 So hear me when I say,

00:25:00.760 I know Donald Trump's type.

00:25:03.740 The case of laughing

00:25:05.260 is that it makes a leader

00:25:08.660 come off less serious.

00:25:10.720 This rests on a common misunderstanding

00:25:12.360 that Lafferter is primarily

00:25:13.980 a response to something funny.

00:25:15.980 Research over the past few decades

00:25:17.800 has backed up what philosophers

00:25:19.320 have said for over a century,

00:25:21.060 which is that laughter

00:25:21.960 is inherently social.

00:25:23.800 More about relationships

00:25:25.100 and communications than jokes.

00:25:27.500 Try to recall the last time

00:25:28.780 you laughed alone.

00:25:30.040 Well, it was about an hour ago

00:25:31.060 when I read this story

00:25:31.880 for the first time.

00:25:33.320 Shakespeare was fascinated

00:25:34.880 by performance of leadership.

00:25:37.200 And he goes into Henry IV

00:25:38.580 and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:25:41.100 Properly utilized, laughter,

00:25:43.140 a wildly flexible form of communication,

00:25:46.080 can do more than any argument.

00:25:48.600 People cite Ronald Reagan saying,

00:25:50.080 there you go again,

00:25:50.960 to Jimmy Carter

00:25:51.680 as a memorable moment

00:25:53.600 after their second presidential debate

00:25:55.120 in 1980.

00:25:56.280 But what they mention less often

00:25:58.120 is that he introduces the line

00:25:59.960 with a chuckle.

00:26:00.920 Harris does something similar

00:26:03.660 in her now viral line,

00:26:05.700 quoting her mother saying,

00:26:07.220 you think you just fell out

00:26:08.360 of a coconut tree?

00:26:10.120 Imagine her trying to say that

00:26:12.080 without following it up

00:26:13.180 with a booming laugh.

00:26:14.960 The line becomes harsher.

00:26:16.780 In letting loose a gaffaw,

00:26:18.280 she displays affection

00:26:19.680 mixed with a wry ribbing.

00:26:22.900 It goes on and on and on

00:26:26.660 in the New York Times.

00:26:28.040 But most laughter in the real world

00:26:29.820 is not callous.

00:26:30.920 But connective.

00:26:32.200 Not exclusionary,

00:26:33.560 but unifying.

00:26:35.100 Laughter can also communicate

00:26:36.420 nervousness,

00:26:37.240 but it can also calm it.

00:26:39.260 A traditional image of a leader

00:26:40.780 might not be a mouth agape.

00:26:43.180 But we do not live

00:26:44.880 in the conventional time.

00:26:46.340 Donald Trump is evidence.

00:26:47.860 Whatever you think about

00:26:48.700 Kid Rock and Hulk Hogan

00:26:49.960 at the Republican convention,

00:26:51.260 their appearances are a testament

00:26:52.520 to the importance

00:26:53.220 of a good time in politics.

00:26:55.240 Democrats have often ceded

00:26:57.340 this territory in recent years,

00:26:58.860 and that can carry a cost

00:27:00.480 as much as not appearing

00:27:01.920 presidential.

00:27:03.240 So what does a laugh

00:27:04.580 say about a person?

00:27:06.200 That she's human.

00:27:07.700 In a divided country,

00:27:09.140 it's something we all do

00:27:10.180 and enjoy.

00:27:11.500 And as anyone who has

00:27:13.280 hung out with friends

00:27:14.220 late into the night knows,

00:27:15.640 it's contagious.

00:27:17.320 That's a powerful

00:27:18.200 political tool.

00:27:19.760 As the poet Ella Wilcox

00:27:21.780 wrote,

00:27:22.360 laugh and the world

00:27:24.200 laughs with you.

00:27:25.920 Ugh.

00:27:26.980 That is the,

00:27:27.940 that is a Kamala Harris

00:27:29.540 level column.

00:27:32.040 It is,

00:27:32.460 that column is equivalent

00:27:34.520 to her vice presidency.

00:27:35.820 It is a just

00:27:38.140 catastrophic bore.

00:27:41.920 Ugh.

00:27:42.760 God, it's so,

00:27:43.940 who,

00:27:44.740 is there a person

00:27:46.320 who would like that column?

00:27:48.240 I mean,

00:27:48.520 I don't care if you're

00:27:49.200 the biggest Kamala Harris

00:27:50.820 supporter in the world.

00:27:52.060 Are you looking at that

00:27:52.860 being like,

00:27:53.180 this is a really good

00:27:54.440 piece of analysis

00:27:55.380 on this.

00:27:56.440 I'm glad they broke

00:27:57.300 down her laugh.

00:27:59.100 Is there anyone

00:28:00.020 in the world

00:28:01.080 who thinks this?

00:28:04.020 Think that this

00:28:05.060 probably had to be

00:28:06.320 assigned by an editor.

00:28:09.760 So somebody was

00:28:10.840 looking at all the

00:28:11.640 things that they were

00:28:12.340 saying about her.

00:28:13.900 Yeah, okay,

00:28:14.580 debunk that she was

00:28:15.640 the border czar.

00:28:16.660 Make sure that you

00:28:17.560 get on that she

00:28:18.480 wasn't, you know,

00:28:19.640 as crazy leftist

00:28:21.360 as everybody thinks

00:28:22.360 she was.

00:28:22.860 And they keep

00:28:23.800 talking about her

00:28:24.400 laugh.

00:28:24.700 Who can do

00:28:25.100 something on her

00:28:25.640 laugh?

00:28:27.200 I mean,

00:28:27.540 this is just,

00:28:28.520 the New York Times

00:28:29.520 has become talking

00:28:30.600 points.

00:28:32.240 They're defending

00:28:33.100 her laugh.

00:28:35.120 It's pathetic.

00:28:36.140 Who's comfortable

00:28:36.520 with that laugh?

00:28:37.300 I don't think she's

00:28:38.220 even comfortable

00:28:38.840 with that laugh.

00:28:39.680 It seems like it's

00:28:40.820 so staged

00:28:42.560 and inauthentic.

00:28:44.200 Yeah.

00:28:44.660 And I'll say,

00:28:45.480 too,

00:28:45.640 like,

00:28:45.840 I don't know if

00:28:46.580 we're now breaking

00:28:48.020 down her laugh,

00:28:48.760 and I realize the

00:28:49.480 somewhat irony of that

00:28:51.200 at this point,

00:28:52.600 but, like,

00:28:52.920 I think,

00:28:53.700 like,

00:28:54.340 it's not even

00:28:55.060 her laugh.

00:28:56.460 It's how absurd

00:28:58.640 the laugh is

00:29:00.800 timing-wise.

00:29:01.940 Like,

00:29:02.080 it occurs at times

00:29:03.660 when you're not

00:29:04.440 supposed to laugh.

00:29:05.820 Like,

00:29:06.260 I don't think her

00:29:07.280 laugh in and of

00:29:08.400 itself is the

00:29:09.760 problem.

00:29:10.700 The problem is

00:29:11.760 she'll say something

00:29:12.800 like,

00:29:13.040 I love school buses.

00:29:14.660 Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

00:29:15.920 It's like,

00:29:16.420 wait a minute,

00:29:17.040 that's not how

00:29:17.560 humans interact.

00:29:19.900 It feels alien.

00:29:21.900 She laughs at times

00:29:22.900 when there's no jokes,

00:29:24.120 and she laughs hard.

00:29:26.600 Like,

00:29:26.860 it's the funniest

00:29:27.420 thing in the world,

00:29:28.140 and it seems more

00:29:29.320 like something

00:29:30.060 she's doing to

00:29:31.260 cover up the

00:29:32.300 awkwardness of

00:29:33.260 what she said,

00:29:35.100 or to delay

00:29:36.580 so that she can

00:29:37.540 try to figure out

00:29:38.400 what she's supposed

00:29:39.160 to say next.

00:29:40.540 Like,

00:29:40.780 she uses it as

00:29:41.600 a tactic

00:29:42.340 to give herself

00:29:44.800 time to think

00:29:45.580 of something

00:29:46.020 to say

00:29:46.600 when in

00:29:47.540 a difficult

00:29:48.320 moment.

00:29:49.080 I mean,

00:29:49.360 she does it a lot

00:29:50.160 in those interviews,

00:29:50.960 those calm interviews

00:29:51.820 where someone's

00:29:52.260 like,

00:29:52.540 well,

00:29:52.720 you know,

00:29:53.040 you,

00:29:53.780 by the way,

00:29:54.200 the borders are

00:29:54.820 a thing,

00:29:55.060 that doesn't seem

00:29:55.460 to be working

00:29:55.820 out.

00:29:56.020 Ha ha ha ha!

00:29:57.940 Well,

00:29:58.640 yeah,

00:29:58.900 yeah.

00:29:59.960 And it's like,

00:30:01.720 as a response

00:30:02.780 to delay

00:30:03.940 an awkward

00:30:05.100 moment,

00:30:05.720 or to just,

00:30:07.040 like,

00:30:07.700 push her through

00:30:08.540 something she's

00:30:09.400 saying that

00:30:09.740 doesn't make

00:30:10.040 any sense.

00:30:11.140 It's not like

00:30:11.660 the laugh itself

00:30:12.840 is particularly

00:30:13.840 offensive,

00:30:14.480 it's how she

00:30:15.200 uses it.

00:30:18.860 This weekend,

00:30:20.280 I,

00:30:20.580 I was just

00:30:22.580 tracking how

00:30:23.360 the media

00:30:23.920 is just

00:30:24.720 erasing

00:30:25.340 things from

00:30:26.120 history,

00:30:26.620 just erasing

00:30:27.260 them,

00:30:28.540 and completely

00:30:30.180 erasing their

00:30:31.340 own fingerprints

00:30:32.280 on all of it.

00:30:34.680 And,

00:30:35.300 and this is

00:30:36.920 one of the

00:30:37.360 stories that came

00:30:38.020 up,

00:30:38.260 was this laughter

00:30:39.020 thing.

00:30:39.460 And I thought,

00:30:39.920 you know,

00:30:40.500 we just need to

00:30:41.740 show people

00:30:42.400 it's not

00:30:43.540 about her

00:30:43.920 laugh.

00:30:44.600 This is,

00:30:45.080 this is about

00:30:45.860 not her.

00:30:46.900 This story

00:30:47.520 is about

00:30:47.880 the media,

00:30:48.920 the links

00:30:49.960 that they

00:30:50.320 will go

00:30:50.860 to.

00:30:51.620 What,

00:30:51.880 I mean,

00:30:52.660 it is,

00:30:53.680 everyone is

00:30:54.540 on deck

00:30:55.640 carrying water

00:30:56.560 for Kamala

00:30:57.280 Harris right

00:30:57.920 now.

00:30:59.580 We need to

00:31:00.580 remind you

00:31:01.300 what they're

00:31:01.960 erasing,

00:31:03.080 because that's

00:31:03.760 the important

00:31:04.320 stuff in this

00:31:05.200 election.

00:31:05.580 the best

00:31:07.080 of the

00:31:07.320 Glenn Beck

00:31:07.700 program.

00:31:11.540 Okay,

00:31:12.100 Stu,

00:31:12.480 what have

00:31:13.300 you seen,

00:31:14.260 because you

00:31:14.780 didn't watch

00:31:15.320 it,

00:31:15.580 what have

00:31:16.000 you seen?

00:31:19.020 A bunch

00:31:20.140 of stuff I

00:31:20.600 wish I

00:31:20.920 hadn't seen.

00:31:22.820 Yeah,

00:31:23.080 okay.

00:31:23.480 You know,

00:31:23.780 dudes with

00:31:25.380 beards doing

00:31:27.120 a lot of

00:31:27.500 dancing,

00:31:28.420 a recreation

00:31:29.620 of The Last

00:31:30.360 Supper with

00:31:31.280 genitals flopping

00:31:32.320 out of undershorts,

00:31:33.260 you know,

00:31:36.680 it was all

00:31:37.920 stuff that I,

00:31:39.260 I mean,

00:31:39.480 I guess there

00:31:39.800 were some

00:31:40.060 sporting events

00:31:40.720 as well tied

00:31:41.480 to this in

00:31:43.380 some way.

00:31:44.020 I haven't seen

00:31:44.420 anything about

00:31:44.880 those sporting

00:31:45.380 events.

00:31:46.200 It was

00:31:46.460 disgusting.

00:31:47.540 Okay.

00:31:48.700 Okay,

00:31:49.200 so here's

00:31:50.060 what's being

00:31:50.500 said.

00:31:51.640 What's being

00:31:52.160 said is

00:31:52.880 there was a

00:31:54.020 golden calf

00:31:54.620 on the main

00:31:55.100 stage and

00:31:56.780 no explanation

00:31:57.440 of it.

00:31:59.120 There was

00:32:00.360 a recreation

00:32:01.400 of the

00:32:02.960 of the

00:32:04.500 Last

00:32:05.120 Supper

00:32:05.380 and people

00:32:07.640 have been

00:32:07.920 saying that

00:32:08.380 wasn't a

00:32:08.820 representation

00:32:09.240 of the

00:32:09.700 Last

00:32:09.920 Supper,

00:32:10.240 but even

00:32:10.780 the director,

00:32:12.420 the guy who

00:32:12.880 was the

00:32:13.280 artistic director

00:32:14.040 for the

00:32:14.360 whole thing

00:32:14.820 said,

00:32:15.380 I'm not

00:32:16.180 the first

00:32:16.620 one to

00:32:17.200 use that

00:32:17.860 image and

00:32:18.860 to change

00:32:19.300 it.

00:32:19.520 I mean,

00:32:19.800 the Simpsons

00:32:20.440 have done

00:32:20.900 it.

00:32:21.120 Everybody

00:32:21.380 has done

00:32:21.880 it.

00:32:22.880 Well,

00:32:23.220 okay,

00:32:23.620 so now

00:32:24.080 we know

00:32:24.660 that that

00:32:25.180 was the

00:32:26.480 Last

00:32:26.800 Supper.

00:32:27.620 Then there

00:32:28.300 was this

00:32:28.640 picture of

00:32:29.300 this woman

00:32:31.320 with her

00:32:33.360 head chopped

00:32:34.240 off and

00:32:35.000 it was a

00:32:35.340 very fire

00:32:36.340 and brimstone

00:32:37.060 kind of

00:32:37.380 thing,

00:32:37.600 but that

00:32:37.900 was about

00:32:38.740 the French

00:32:39.200 Revolution.

00:32:43.860 Then there

00:32:44.520 was a

00:32:45.080 really

00:32:45.960 interesting

00:32:47.460 party that

00:32:49.020 went on

00:32:51.340 that seemed,

00:32:52.800 I don't know,

00:32:53.460 kind of pagan,

00:32:54.320 but that was

00:32:54.780 the point,

00:32:55.480 they say.

00:32:56.280 And then

00:32:56.780 there was a

00:32:57.240 pale writer,

00:32:58.640 a writer that

00:32:59.560 was dressed

00:33:00.940 and carrying

00:33:01.560 the Olympic

00:33:02.100 flag and

00:33:03.400 he was on

00:33:03.880 a pale

00:33:04.280 horse and

00:33:04.960 he was

00:33:05.380 dressed in

00:33:06.220 pale armor

00:33:07.180 and he

00:33:09.500 was riding

00:33:09.980 the horse

00:33:10.560 on the

00:33:11.840 Seine.

00:33:13.600 Now,

00:33:14.320 let me

00:33:15.960 tell you

00:33:16.940 that,

00:33:17.480 let me

00:33:17.740 first give

00:33:18.180 a review

00:33:18.640 of the

00:33:20.160 opening.

00:33:24.560 Celine

00:33:25.160 Dayan

00:33:25.720 ended

00:33:27.200 everything

00:33:27.640 and it

00:33:28.740 was one

00:33:29.260 of the

00:33:29.460 most

00:33:29.620 powerful

00:33:30.000 moments

00:33:30.440 I've

00:33:30.740 ever

00:33:30.920 seen.

00:33:32.760 She

00:33:33.240 sang,

00:33:34.220 I don't

00:33:34.500 know,

00:33:34.720 some

00:33:34.940 Frenchy

00:33:35.400 French

00:33:35.640 song

00:33:35.980 about,

00:33:36.420 you know,

00:33:37.520 if you

00:33:37.860 only love

00:33:38.340 me right

00:33:38.760 now,

00:33:39.580 that'll

00:33:39.800 be fine,

00:33:40.440 whatever.

00:33:42.080 But it

00:33:42.740 was powerful

00:33:44.300 and it

00:33:45.180 was powerful

00:33:45.800 because she

00:33:46.920 conquered all

00:33:47.660 odds.

00:33:48.580 She was

00:33:48.980 diagnosed

00:33:49.440 with stiff

00:33:50.560 person

00:33:51.200 syndrome

00:33:52.420 where your

00:33:53.540 body just

00:33:54.180 stiffens up

00:33:54.920 and you

00:33:55.160 can't move

00:33:55.580 it and

00:33:55.860 she was

00:33:56.740 incredible

00:33:58.560 and they

00:33:59.840 had her

00:34:00.400 on the

00:34:01.040 second

00:34:01.380 level of

00:34:02.100 the

00:34:02.260 Eiffel

00:34:02.580 Tower.

00:34:03.120 They

00:34:03.500 used the

00:34:04.080 Eiffel

00:34:04.380 Tower as

00:34:05.080 a backdrop

00:34:06.660 for much

00:34:08.000 of this

00:34:08.540 and I've

00:34:10.040 never seen

00:34:10.700 the Olympics

00:34:11.180 ever.

00:34:12.400 I've never

00:34:12.700 seen anybody

00:34:13.560 do anything

00:34:15.580 like what they

00:34:16.440 did in

00:34:17.240 Paris and

00:34:17.920 making the

00:34:18.640 entire city

00:34:20.020 a stage.

00:34:21.420 it was

00:34:23.280 beautiful,

00:34:24.700 powerful,

00:34:25.580 cost them

00:34:26.300 $150

00:34:27.740 million.

00:34:29.440 So if it

00:34:30.400 wasn't

00:34:30.940 beautiful and

00:34:32.200 crazy

00:34:33.620 outrageous

00:34:34.100 in a good

00:34:34.940 way,

00:34:35.400 you would

00:34:35.960 wonder what

00:34:36.340 they did

00:34:36.700 with $150

00:34:37.460 million.

00:34:38.300 But I

00:34:38.980 kept saying

00:34:39.440 all the way

00:34:39.860 through it,

00:34:40.300 I cannot

00:34:40.900 imagine what

00:34:41.860 this cost

00:34:42.780 to put on.

00:34:43.920 I'm surprised

00:34:44.520 it was only

00:34:45.380 $150

00:34:46.360 million.

00:34:46.840 Now,

00:34:51.600 let's

00:34:54.620 take the

00:34:55.080 imagery

00:34:55.460 and let's

00:34:57.600 take it

00:34:58.080 two ways.

00:35:01.680 Let's

00:35:02.360 take it as

00:35:02.860 what the

00:35:03.580 Olympic

00:35:04.200 Committee

00:35:04.520 said it

00:35:05.000 was.

00:35:06.340 That

00:35:06.980 rider in

00:35:08.900 the horse

00:35:09.580 is the

00:35:12.420 I don't

00:35:13.180 know,

00:35:13.560 the god

00:35:14.420 of the

00:35:14.840 Seine

00:35:15.120 River

00:35:15.520 that this

00:35:17.100 was all

00:35:17.600 about the

00:35:18.280 history of

00:35:19.120 France,

00:35:19.620 which it

00:35:19.880 was,

00:35:20.980 and it

00:35:22.660 had nothing

00:35:23.440 to do

00:35:23.980 with mocking

00:35:24.640 Christianity.

00:35:26.860 Well,

00:35:27.540 I would

00:35:28.200 say that

00:35:29.920 you could

00:35:30.500 read it

00:35:30.860 that way,

00:35:31.820 absolutely.

00:35:32.820 Like the

00:35:33.520 horse,

00:35:33.920 you could

00:35:34.280 read it

00:35:34.680 as the

00:35:35.080 pale rider

00:35:35.660 or you

00:35:36.180 could read

00:35:36.600 it as

00:35:37.180 the spirit

00:35:38.920 of the

00:35:39.300 Seine.

00:35:40.080 Fine.

00:35:40.700 And I'm

00:35:40.960 not going

00:35:41.200 to argue

00:35:41.560 about that.

00:35:42.220 You could

00:35:42.420 read it

00:35:42.760 either way.

00:35:44.320 But there

00:35:44.620 are some

00:35:45.280 things here

00:35:45.960 that you

00:35:46.320 cannot

00:35:46.720 read any

00:35:47.880 other way.

00:35:49.400 One,

00:35:50.480 the golden

00:35:51.320 calf on

00:35:52.540 the main

00:35:53.080 stage facing

00:35:54.500 the Eiffel

00:35:55.320 Tower.

00:35:56.160 There was a

00:35:57.000 golden bust

00:35:57.900 of the bull

00:35:58.920 and then

00:35:59.740 there was

00:36:00.140 the golden

00:36:00.700 calf beneath

00:36:01.700 that.

00:36:02.400 It was

00:36:03.120 never

00:36:03.780 mentioned.

00:36:06.660 Why?

00:36:07.340 if you

00:36:11.700 watched the

00:36:12.820 segment with

00:36:15.600 the Lord's

00:36:17.140 Supper,

00:36:18.740 it only

00:36:19.840 was on

00:36:20.220 the frame

00:36:20.680 for,

00:36:21.340 on the

00:36:21.580 TV for

00:36:22.700 about two

00:36:23.340 or three

00:36:23.660 seconds.

00:36:25.120 Now,

00:36:25.540 I want to

00:36:26.080 show you

00:36:26.400 that it's

00:36:26.800 not just

00:36:27.460 Christians in

00:36:28.260 America and

00:36:29.200 conservatives

00:36:29.720 that are all

00:36:30.400 upset.

00:36:31.300 Could you

00:36:31.640 please play

00:36:32.260 the video

00:36:33.460 that we got

00:36:34.080 from,

00:36:34.540 I don't

00:36:34.860 remember what,

00:36:35.460 one of the

00:36:37.020 social services

00:36:37.820 where they're

00:36:38.960 in France

00:36:39.760 and they're

00:36:41.040 watching it

00:36:41.720 and these

00:36:42.420 are French

00:36:43.040 people

00:36:43.460 watching that

00:36:44.600 scene.

00:36:45.460 What?

00:36:49.500 Hands on

00:36:50.200 their faces.

00:36:55.800 Now,

00:36:56.440 head in the

00:36:56.840 hands.

00:37:05.460 So,

00:37:14.420 even they

00:37:15.400 were a

00:37:16.040 little

00:37:16.180 shocked

00:37:16.640 by it.

00:37:17.220 Maybe

00:37:17.400 they thought

00:37:17.860 it was

00:37:18.260 funny,

00:37:19.000 but their

00:37:19.760 expressions

00:37:20.200 show that

00:37:21.100 they were

00:37:21.360 also kind

00:37:22.180 of embarrassed

00:37:22.780 that that

00:37:23.240 would be

00:37:23.520 happening.

00:37:24.760 The

00:37:25.100 announcers

00:37:29.000 never said

00:37:29.700 anything about

00:37:30.800 even that

00:37:31.360 being a

00:37:31.820 table other

00:37:32.400 than the

00:37:33.300 runway

00:37:33.800 has been

00:37:36.520 fashioned

00:37:37.080 from a

00:37:38.380 banquet

00:37:38.760 table.

00:37:40.180 And then

00:37:40.420 they passed

00:37:41.040 over that

00:37:41.620 scene.

00:37:42.180 Well,

00:37:42.360 that scene

00:37:43.080 was carefully

00:37:43.960 constructed

00:37:45.200 to look

00:37:46.160 like the

00:37:46.740 Last Supper.

00:37:47.880 There's no

00:37:48.500 way you can

00:37:49.100 deny that,

00:37:49.840 the positions

00:37:50.460 and everything

00:37:50.920 else.

00:37:51.580 However,

00:37:52.040 it's all

00:37:52.600 drag queens.

00:37:53.980 So,

00:37:54.400 all of the

00:37:55.300 apostles are

00:37:56.420 a drag queen

00:37:57.200 and Jesus

00:37:57.760 is a fat

00:37:58.380 lesbian.

00:38:01.040 And there

00:38:01.700 was a child

00:38:02.500 at the

00:38:03.060 table.

00:38:03.380 And if

00:38:03.900 you look

00:38:04.360 at a

00:38:04.620 screen

00:38:04.960 grab,

00:38:05.480 you can

00:38:05.900 see the

00:38:07.040 man behind

00:38:08.240 her,

00:38:08.800 his testicles

00:38:09.760 are escaping

00:38:12.860 and wandering

00:38:14.200 about.

00:38:15.960 It was

00:38:17.000 truly horrifying

00:38:19.360 if you look

00:38:20.500 at it as

00:38:21.700 the Last

00:38:22.520 Supper.

00:38:23.440 It is

00:38:24.060 mocking

00:38:24.680 God.

00:38:26.180 And as I

00:38:26.620 said last

00:38:27.120 week, we

00:38:27.560 are no

00:38:27.980 longer chasing

00:38:29.320 God out of

00:38:30.020 the public

00:38:30.400 square.

00:38:30.760 That's been

00:38:31.080 done long

00:38:31.520 ago.

00:38:31.800 We are

00:38:32.800 now taking

00:38:33.640 him bound

00:38:34.420 and gagged

00:38:35.160 to our

00:38:35.460 public

00:38:35.800 square,

00:38:36.840 tying him

00:38:37.460 to a pole

00:38:38.260 and mocking

00:38:39.720 him every

00:38:40.740 day.

00:38:41.320 That doesn't

00:38:42.160 end well for

00:38:42.840 any civilization.

00:38:43.920 I don't

00:38:47.180 believe that

00:38:47.720 everybody had

00:38:48.900 seen this.

00:38:50.640 The director

00:38:51.280 kept a lot

00:38:51.980 of it

00:38:52.260 secret.

00:38:53.440 So nobody

00:38:54.260 knew what

00:38:54.900 everything

00:38:55.420 meant or

00:38:56.140 why it

00:38:56.660 was done.

00:38:57.120 But that

00:38:57.400 was clearly

00:38:58.300 done, as

00:38:59.280 were the

00:38:59.720 golden calf,

00:39:01.640 to say that

00:39:02.740 this is a

00:39:03.740 pagan ritual.

00:39:04.740 Now, the

00:39:07.620 guy, the

00:39:08.120 little blue

00:39:08.620 guy, is

00:39:09.940 the god of

00:39:14.100 wine.

00:39:14.840 He is

00:39:15.180 also the

00:39:16.480 god of

00:39:18.700 the theater,

00:39:19.780 eventually.

00:39:20.820 I think it's

00:39:21.960 Dionysus.

00:39:25.320 Dionysus is

00:39:27.220 the Greek

00:39:28.320 god of

00:39:29.120 wine, which

00:39:30.280 goes into

00:39:31.100 France, but

00:39:32.860 also of

00:39:34.020 this, of

00:39:35.740 ecstasy, and

00:39:37.640 they used

00:39:39.120 to have

00:39:39.580 rituals, this

00:39:40.340 cult gathered

00:39:41.880 around him,

00:39:43.240 and it was

00:39:44.620 a festival,

00:39:45.360 which is

00:39:45.700 said that

00:39:46.220 this is what

00:39:46.720 this festival

00:39:47.320 was supposed

00:39:47.780 to represent,

00:39:48.980 which was

00:39:49.780 really

00:39:50.880 decadent

00:39:53.940 and evil.

00:39:55.800 I mean,

00:39:56.020 let's just be

00:39:56.700 honest about

00:39:57.380 it.

00:39:57.520 It was just

00:39:58.300 evil the way

00:39:59.520 it happened.

00:39:59.920 In fact, it

00:40:00.360 was so evil

00:40:01.060 that in

00:40:01.460 186,

00:40:02.860 BCE, the

00:40:05.740 Italians

00:40:06.240 banned this

00:40:07.280 god and

00:40:08.080 that festival.

00:40:09.160 It was

00:40:09.620 not good.

00:40:11.200 So you

00:40:11.700 can't just

00:40:12.160 say that

00:40:12.560 this is

00:40:12.880 something that

00:40:13.500 is, you

00:40:13.880 know, oh,

00:40:14.480 well, this

00:40:14.880 is just the

00:40:16.640 god of

00:40:17.000 wine.

00:40:18.180 He's also

00:40:19.060 the god

00:40:19.740 of ecstasy

00:40:21.200 and ecstasy

00:40:24.740 without any

00:40:25.520 shame.

00:40:26.640 He is also

00:40:27.440 the god that

00:40:28.200 you would

00:40:28.540 see on

00:40:29.160 old theater

00:40:30.400 marquees

00:40:31.880 with the

00:40:32.420 grapes over

00:40:33.360 his head.

00:40:33.820 He's also

00:40:34.200 the god

00:40:35.000 of the

00:40:35.440 pagan

00:40:35.740 theater.

00:40:37.700 So he

00:40:39.260 comes out

00:40:39.900 to be

00:40:40.300 served and

00:40:42.100 they have

00:40:42.420 an orgy.

00:40:43.140 While there

00:40:44.120 is a

00:40:44.980 fashion show

00:40:46.840 that was

00:40:47.420 going on

00:40:48.060 with men

00:40:48.700 in dresses

00:40:49.480 and it

00:40:50.880 was just

00:40:51.360 all gender

00:40:52.100 bender,

00:40:52.540 it was

00:40:52.920 basically

00:40:53.600 that whole

00:40:54.500 scene and

00:40:55.340 much of

00:40:55.780 the night

00:40:56.160 was we

00:40:57.860 reject all

00:40:59.700 the norms

00:41:00.440 of God.

00:41:02.500 We object

00:41:03.480 and will

00:41:04.840 mock

00:41:06.140 everything

00:41:07.360 that

00:41:08.460 people say

00:41:09.940 is

00:41:10.780 good.

00:41:14.560 And we

00:41:15.000 will mock

00:41:15.700 those who

00:41:16.480 are offended

00:41:17.000 by this.

00:41:18.360 I believe

00:41:19.240 this was

00:41:19.700 some sort

00:41:20.360 of, I'd

00:41:20.800 have to

00:41:21.120 talk to

00:41:21.680 Rabbi

00:41:23.260 Daniel Lappin

00:41:24.000 to find

00:41:24.380 out.

00:41:25.020 But I'd

00:41:25.320 like to

00:41:25.620 hear his

00:41:26.040 opinion on

00:41:26.640 this because

00:41:27.020 I think

00:41:27.620 that this

00:41:28.940 was a

00:41:29.420 pagan

00:41:29.680 ritual that

00:41:30.740 we just

00:41:31.240 don't

00:41:31.680 understand

00:41:32.400 because we're

00:41:33.660 too far

00:41:34.100 away from

00:41:34.640 it.

00:41:35.240 But this

00:41:35.740 is a

00:41:36.640 gauntlet

00:41:37.720 thrown

00:41:38.080 down in

00:41:39.380 France.

00:41:39.880 Now, why

00:41:40.960 would you

00:41:41.320 do this?

00:41:42.980 People would

00:41:43.560 say, and I've

00:41:44.460 heard them

00:41:44.760 say, why

00:41:45.900 would they do

00:41:46.420 this to all

00:41:47.120 the Christians

00:41:47.740 of the world?

00:41:48.500 There's almost

00:41:49.060 two billion

00:41:49.920 Christians in

00:41:50.600 the world.

00:41:51.620 Yeah, but

00:41:53.040 if your

00:41:53.440 country was

00:41:54.140 being taken

00:41:54.760 over by

00:41:55.580 Islamicists and

00:41:57.740 they were

00:41:58.060 already on

00:41:58.780 the streets

00:41:59.300 saying how

00:41:59.940 decadent and

00:42:00.940 perverse of

00:42:01.720 a society

00:42:02.380 you are,

00:42:04.100 why would

00:42:04.920 you put

00:42:05.300 that on

00:42:05.760 full display?

00:42:10.160 This was

00:42:10.980 a gauntlet

00:42:11.780 that was

00:42:12.280 thrown down

00:42:13.120 and I

00:42:15.140 don't think

00:42:15.620 it's going

00:42:15.940 to end

00:42:16.360 well.

00:42:16.700 so

00:42:23.120 congratulations

00:42:23.880 Celine Dion

00:42:24.660 for

00:42:25.200 taking that

00:42:27.620 eight million

00:42:28.280 dollars to

00:42:28.960 stand up

00:42:29.460 and sing.

00:42:30.080 You were

00:42:30.560 amazing.

00:42:32.080 But the

00:42:32.860 rest of it

00:42:33.580 was highly,

00:42:34.980 highly

00:42:35.300 disturbing.

00:42:35.860 나나

00:42:37.120 나나

00:42:37.520 나나

00:42:37.800 나나

00:42:38.180 N

The Glenn Beck Program - July 29, 2024

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